AT&T continues to fight for its right to merge with wireless carrier T-Mobile, hitting back at an FCC report that claims the merger would cause “significant harms” to competition and consumers, including increased costs for customers, reduced incentives for innovation and decreased consumer choices. AT&T maintains that the merger will increase innovation, create jobs and save T-Mobile and said the FCC report is a "one-sided" advocacy piece that "cherry-picks facts to support its own views."

Clearwire investors must have heaved a sigh of relief this week after Sprint extended a $1.6 billion lifeline to the struggling company. Under the extended agreement, Sprint will continue to offer Clearwire's WiMax network to customers and supports the build-out of its LTE network, scheduled to be up and running by the end of 2012 or early 2013.

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The growing Benaroya Company announced it has added Garrick Sturgill as its new facility manager for its new South Hill and Boise data centers. Sturgill was previously general and operations manger of CoreLink Data Centers and held management positions at The Westin Building.

"Garrick brings a vast amount of expertise and in-depth knowledge of critical environments design and operations.” said Larry Benaroya, principal of the Benaroya Company, in a statement. "He joins us at an exciting time as we expand our data center footprint."